Man jumps from the Skyway in apparent suicide

An unidentified man drove up to the crest of the Buffalo Skyway shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday, got out of his car and jumped into the water below in an apparent suicide.

Buffalo Police and Coast Guard officers scrambled to find he victim, described only as a white male in his 20s, whose body was recovered from the City Ship Canal near RCR Yacht Club. Homicide detectives, who were summoned to the Coast Guard Station, said a suicide note was found in the car.